I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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